Chapter Summaries

Shen Long exchanged Supreme Pills for Blood Dragon Rice, then nurtured his spirit beasts as he developed the beginnings of a Spirit Beast Legion. Back at Thousand Spirits Sect, he congratulated Chen Yang and Sun Yao on reaching the Nascent Soul Realm and learned that Patriarch Qin planned to bring him to a ceremony hosted by the Ni Family.

• Shen Long exchanged five Supreme Spirit Enlightenment Pills for Blood Dragon Rice at Five Spirit Pavilion and ate a pot of it to strengthen his cultivation.
• Shen Long visited the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, gave Supreme Beast-Nurturing Pills to Shen Lie, the Ice Flood Dragon, the Fire Qilin Beast, and a fifth-rank Crimson Fire Ape, and checked on his growing beast populations.
• Shen Long said the Sea-Treading Turtles, Ice Vultures, and Crimson Fire Apes were the initial framework of his planned Spirit Beast Legion.
• Shen Long returned to Thousand Spirits Sect and gave Chen Yang and Sun Yao Spirit Treasures after learning they had both reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Yang told Shen Long that he and Sun Yao planned to become Dual Cultivation Partners, and Shen Long congratulated them.
• Sun Lin told Shen Long that Patriarch Qin intended to bring him to a Dual Cultivation Ceremony hosted by a Void Refining Cultivator of the Ni Family, and Shen Long said he would contact Aunt Qin.

Shen Long traveled with Qin Yan and other Thousand Spirits Sect cultivators to attend a Ni Family ceremony, where he encountered Huo Tianxing. The chapter ended with the two groups meeting in the sky on their way to the Ni Family.

• Qin Yan told Shen Long to join her trip to the Ni Family’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony, and Shen Long cooked Blood Dragon Rice and refined its energy.
• Huo Tianxing learned that he would attend the ceremony with Liu Xuan after Zhao Xian told him the Shangguan Clan would also send representatives.
• Shen Long arrived at Golden Ginseng Valley and met fellow Thousand Spirits Sect disciples, including Lin Long and Mo Qingwu.
• Qin Yan and Chen Xuan led Shen Long and the other disciples away from Golden Ginseng Valley on a Cyan Giant Crane.
• More than half a year later, Qin Yan spotted five approaching Void Refining Cultivators, and Huo Tianxing recognized Shen Long aboard the Thousand Spirits Sect’s crane.

Shen Long and the others arrived at Donghua Island for the East Hua Immortal Couple's descendant's Dual Cultivation Ceremony, where the Ni Family hosted guests from the Thousand Spirits Sect, Big Dipper Pavilion, and Crimson Qilin Shangguan Clan. The Ni Family's celebration was overshadowed when Patriarch Ni Yihai learned that five Void Refining clansmen, including Patriarch Tianyun, had died.

• Shen Long reunited with Huo Tianxing, and Qin Yan and Liu Guang agreed to travel together to the Ni Family gathering.
• Ni Yunqing checked the guests' invitations, and Shangyun Yunshang arrived with cultivators from the Crimson Qilin Shangguan Clan.
• Ni Hongshan welcomed the guests to Donghua Island, where they saw a Ni Family cultivator undergoing a Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation; Shen Long settled in the Golden Cicada Courtyard.
• Ni Hongshan told Ni Yihai that Senior Shangguan would arrive later, and Ni Yihai ordered him to entertain the guests and pursue another marriage alliance with the Shangguan Clan.
• A messenger reported that the Life Soul Lamps of five Void Refining cultivators, including Patriarch Tianyun, had gone out, and Ni Yihai ordered the deaths kept secret while he investigated.

Shen Long and the Thousand Spirits Sect cultivators attended a gathering hosted by the Ni Family, where they met Ni Tianhe, Shangguan Zilong, and others. Shen Long discussed his experiences in the Lower Realm and the Heaven Origin Race, while the gathering turned to the Spirit Beasts of Dry Thunder Continent.

• Li Qing led Shen Long and the others to a separate gathering after Ni Qingqing explained that the Ni Family was hosting visiting Spirit Transformation cultivators in groups.
• At Ni Tianhe's estate, Li Xing and Zhang Yi asked Shen Long about his connection to Huo and his origins in the Lower Realm.
• Shangguan Zilong and Shangguan Ziyu arrived with Shangguan Zifei and Shangguan Ziqing, and the group discussed their joint attack cultivation art and Shen Long's ascension.
• Shen Long described the Lower Realm and explained that Heaven Origin Race cultivators weakened after their Heaven Origin Divine Light ran out, though Ni Tianhe noted that they usually fled rather than fight long enough.
• Shangguan Zilong displayed a Rift Thunder Rhino, and Shangguan Ziyu revealed a Wind Thunder Centipede with Hundred-Headed Insect Bloodline, which caught Shen Long's interest.

Shen Long entered a beast-and-insect fight with his mutated iron tail scorpion after the Thousand Spirits Sect disciples lost their matches. His scorpion defeated Shangguan Ziyu’s wind thunder centipede with a divine sense attack, leaving the others impressed by its rare ability.

• Shangguan Ziyu proposed a beast-and-insect fighting match, and Ni Tianhe brought out his Mountains and Rivers Map for the contestants to fight inside.
• Li Tianxue, Lin Long, Mo Qingwu, and Li Qing lost their matches, so Li Tianxue asked Shen Long to compete on their behalf.
• Shen Long offered a supreme spirit enlightenment pill as a stake and revealed his mutated iron tail scorpion; Shangguan Ziyu accepted the challenge with her wind thunder centipede and a supreme azure dragon pill.
• Shangguan Ziyu’s wind thunder centipede attacked with golden lightning, but the iron tail scorpion used a divine sense attack to force it into the ground.
• Shangguan Ziyu conceded defeat, and Ni Tianhe explained that the centipede could not defend against the scorpion’s divine sense attack.

Shen Long attended a gathering where cultivators exchanged stories and cultivation resources, trading for a Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus seed to refine a new avatar. The exchange continued as Shangguan Zilong offered rare materials, including Seven Haze True Water.

• Shangguan Ziyu gave Shen Long Wind Thunder Centipede eggs in exchange for having her Fire Thunder Scorpion mate with his Iron Tail Scorpion.
• Ni Tianhe welcomed Wang Lian, Chu Buyu, and other Divine Weapon Sect cultivators, and the group discussed Wang Lian’s soul-targeting Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure and legendary cultivators.
• Ni Tianhe began the resource exchange, and Shen Long traded a Supreme Spirit Enlightenment Pill for a Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus seed to refine an avatar.
• Shangguan Zilong presented his exchange items, and Ni Qingqing asked about a cyan gourd that contained rare Seven Haze True Water.

Shen Long refined an independent avatar from a Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus seed and named him Shen Lang, then arranged for him to cultivate in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower. Afterward, Chu Buyu traded Seven Haze True Water with Shen Long and learned that he could refine Supreme Pills.

• Shen Long exchanged Six Roots Purity Bamboo with Shangguan Zilong for Nine Yang Soul Wood.
• Shen Long used the Green Lotus Lamp and a Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus seed to create an avatar, then named him Shen Lang.
• Shen Long placed Shen Lang in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower with cultivation resources.
• Ni Yihai ordered his clan to search for Qingyangzi and have a Body Integration cultivator capture him if he was found.
• Chu Buyu traded Seven Haze True Water to Shen Long for a Supreme Spirit Enlightenment Pill and Five-Colored Divine Mud.
• Shen Long told Chu Buyu that he had refined the Supreme Spirit Enlightenment Pill himself, and she promised to keep it secret.

Shen Long prepared a guarded pool for his Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus before attending Ni Tianting and Lin Yuyuan’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony, where the Ni Family announced a Thousand Beast Tower challenge for Spirit Transformation cultivators. After watching Wang Lian reach the ninth floor and fall to a sixth-order beast, Shen Long entered the tower and faced a Crimson Flame Tiger and an Eight-Winged Thunder Fire Centipede.

• Shen Long used formation flags and a Formation Disk to prepare a pool for the Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus, then instructed the Tree Demon to care for it.
• Shen Long joined Qin Yan and the other guests at the Ni Family’s ceremony, where Ni Tianting and Lin Yuyuan toasted the gathering and representatives presented gifts.
• Ni Hongshan announced a Thousand Beast Tower challenge for Spirit Transformation cultivators, with valuable rewards for the top fifty contestants.
• Li Xing cleared the first three floors, while Wang Lian reached the tenth floor before a sixth-order Early Stage Crimson Fire Ape defeated and injured him.
• After observing the challengers, Shen Long registered and entered the tower, where a Crimson Flame Tiger and an Eight-Winged Thunder Fire Centipede emerged to face him.

Shen Long relied on his Iron Tail Scorpion and Transformation Art to clear the Thousand Beast Tower’s lower floors and reach the tenth, where he faced a sixth order Green Wind Falcon. Outside the tower, cultivators watched Shen Long and Shangguan Zilong, who had set the highest ranking so far.

• Shen Long used the Iron Tail Scorpion’s shrieks and poison to defeat the beasts on the first floor, then quickly cleared the trials that followed.
• Cultivators outside the tower discussed the Iron Tail Scorpion’s abilities and focused on Shangguan Zilong, who had reached the ninth floor.
• Shangguan Zilong used the Dragon Subduing Tiger Taming Technique to fight six Fifth Rank Late Stage Monster Beasts on the ninth floor.
• Shen Long transformed into a Yellow Giant Ape and defeated all six beasts on the ninth floor with his sound wave, strength, and gravity powers.
• Shen Long reached the tenth floor and faced a Green Wind Falcon whose Dharma Aspect stopped the air from flowing.
• Ni Tianhe noted that Shen Long had reached the tenth floor, while Huo Tianxing praised Shen Long’s Transformation Art to Qin Yan.

Shen Long survived the Thousand Beast Tower’s trials in his Yellow Giant Ape form, then faced several elite cultivators in sparring matches. He overwhelmed their attacks with his strength and physical defenses, and the chapter ended as his Green Lotus True Flame clashed with Wang Lian’s Golden Flame.

• Shen Long conceded to the Green Wind Falcon after enduring its attack in the Thousand Beast Tower, then left the tower and healed with Qin Yan’s Supreme Blood-Apricot Pill.
• Shangguan Zilong challenged Shen Long to a two-move spar, but Shen Long sent him flying with a single punch; Ni Hongshan called the match a draw.
• Ni Tianhe challenged Shen Long to a punch, and Shen Long again sent his opponent flying while taking only two steps back.
• Li Xing attacked Shen Long with five flying swords fused into a giant sword, but Shen Long’s Earth Armor and fist knocked the weapon aside.
• Wang Lian challenged Shen Long to a Spirit Flame contest, and Shen Long sent out the Green Lotus True Flame to meet Wang Lian’s Golden Flame.

Shen Long won the Thousand Beast Tower contest and earned praise from the Thousand Spirits Sect and other cultivators. After returning to the sect, he sought guidance on preparing to advance to the Void Refining Realm and began studying the experiences of his predecessors.

• Shen Long defeated Wang Lian's Golden Fire Flood Dragon, ranked first among the Spirit Transmutation cultivators, and claimed the reward.
• Qin Yan and Chen Xuan praised Shen Long after the Dual Cultivation Ceremony, while Shangyun Yunshang and Ni Tianting advised their younger clan members to learn from their loss to him.
• Seven days later, Qin Yan and Chen Xuan left the Ni Family with Shen Long and the others, and they returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect more than half a year later.
• Shen Long visited Mo Bingbing and asked for guidance about cultivating an additional art in preparation for the Void Refining Realm.
• Mo Bingbing gave Shen Long her insights from attempting Void Refining, and Shen Long exchanged Merit Points for predecessors' experiences, recordings, and alchemy materials before returning to Golden Roc Peak.

Shen Long studied records of past Void Refining tribulations, cultivated for two hundred years, and reached Spirit Transmutation Great Perfection. After deliberately refining a Supreme Pill to reveal his skill, he secured Thousand Spirits Sect’s promise of formations and defensive treasures for his future breakthrough.

• Shen Long reviewed images and records of more than twenty Void Refining attempts and prepared to face the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation.
• Shen Long settled Wind Thunder Centipedes on the fourth floor of the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, then cultivated with Sea-Suppressing Ape Essence Blood.
• Fairy Dry Fire questioned Chu Buyu about her relationship with Shen Long and reminded her not to neglect cultivation for artifact refining.
• Two hundred years later, Shen Long refined a Supreme Pill at Golden Roc Peak, triggering a phenomenon that drew the attention of Li Tianxue and Mo Bingbing.
• Shen Long told Mo Bingbing he planned to prepare more defensive treasures before attempting Void Refining, and she promised that Thousand Spirits Sect would provide formations and treasures.

Shen Long learned that the sect would help him prepare for the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation and reunited with Chu Buyu, who gave him a Thunder-Controlling Pearl. He confessed his feelings, and after she agreed to become his Dao companion, he escorted her away and began refining pills; elsewhere, Bian Ting and Yin Hao discussed their hostility toward Shen Long and a search for Qingyangzi.

• Mo Bingbing cautioned Shen Long not to rush into Void Refining, and he told her that he had drawn Five-Colored Divine Lightning during his breakthrough to Spirit Transmutation.
• Chu Buyu visited Shen Long at the Thousand Spirits Sect, gave him a Thunder-Controlling Pearl, and received his Heavy Water Thunder Pearl in return.
• Shen Long asked Chu Buyu to become his Dao companion, and she agreed, though they decided to discuss marriage after she advanced to Void Refining.
• After Chu Buyu left, Shen Long refined the Thunder-Controlling Pearl and began refining pills in his Alchemy Room.
• At Thunder Centipede Garden, Bian Ting and Yin Hao discussed killing Shen Long, while Bian Ji reported that the Ni Family was searching for Qingyangzi and his Green Lotus Sword.

Two years later, Shen Long received gifts and payment from fellow cultivators seeking his Supreme Pills, then fought Han He in a spar and decisively defeated him. After Han He left with the Lord of Hundred Poisons, Mo Bingbing asked whether Shen Long planned to break through to the Void Refining stage.

• Yang Tianshan gave Shen Long two hundred three-thousand-year-old spirit herbs and a Wood Demon Crystal Core in thanks for refining Supreme Pills.
• Nangong Zheng collected ten Supreme Spirit Enlightenment Pills and paid Shen Long with Fifth-Rank Demon Cores.
• Mo Bingbing summoned Shen Long to meet the Lord of Hundred Poisons and Han He, who challenged Shen Long to help overcome his bottleneck.
• Shen Long transformed into a Yellow Giant Ape and overwhelmed Han He with powerful attacks until Han He conceded.
• Han He praised Shen Long and left with the Lord of Hundred Poisons, while Mo Bingbing asked Shen Long if he intended to attempt a breakthrough to the Void Refining stage.

Shen Long received the Thousand Spirits Sect’s support and prepared to break through to Void Refining in Golden Cicada Valley. After sixty years of cultivation, he triggered a breakthrough phenomenon, prompting Mo Bingbing and Xu Tianhai to head to the valley.

• Shen Long visited the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, promised to help the Thunder Peng advance, and fed it two golden Demon Cores.
• Xu Tianhai arranged for Shen Long to attempt his breakthrough in Golden Cicada Valley and gave him a Cyan Token, a Seven Star Thunder-Dissolving Talisman, and records of his own breakthrough.
• Liu Lei escorted Shen Long to Golden Cicada Valley, where Shen Long settled into seclusion.
• Huo Tianxing told Wang Yuling that Yin Hao had entered Void Refining and that the Heaven Origin Race was seeking Qingyangzi and his Green Lotus Sword.
• Sixty years later, Liu Lei reported that Shen Long had triggered a breakthrough phenomenon, and Mo Bingbing and Xu Tianhai set out for Golden Cicada Valley.

Shen Long endured a lightning tribulation and broke through to the Void Refining Realm, surviving three bolts of Seven-Colored Divine Thunder with the Thunder Peng’s help. Mo Bingbing and Xu Tianhai congratulated him after the ruined Golden Cicada Valley was revealed.

• Shen Long united the five elements and summoned a Dharma Aspect above Golden Cicada Valley as the lightning tribulation began.
• Mo Bingbing and Xu Tianhai watched the Heavenly Sand Formation withstand the early lightning strikes and discussed the danger of Seven-Colored Divine Thunder.
• The Thunder Cloud turned seven-colored, and its first two bolts broke through the formation and engulfed Shen Long’s courtyard.
• Shen Long merged with the Thunder Peng to withstand the final strike, while his defensive treasures and formation were destroyed.
• Shen Long treated the badly injured Thunder Peng, then dismissed the Yellow Mist as Mo Bingbing and Xu Tianhai arrived and congratulated him on becoming a Void Refining Cultivator.

After Shen Long entered the Void Refining stage, he learned that Li Tianxue was attempting the same breakthrough and explored the new sixth floor of the Ten Thousand Beast Tower. He used Heavenly Mountain Snow Paste to treat the Thunder Peng’s tribulation wounds and resumed cultivation.

• Mo Bingbing and Xu Tianhai congratulated Shen Long on summoning Seven-Colored Divine Thunder and explained the significance of tribulation thunder.
• After hearing that Li Tianxue was attempting to enter the Void Refining stage, Shen Long returned to Golden Roc Peak and gave Sun Lin a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.
• Shen Long explored the newly opened sixth floor of the Ten Thousand Beast Tower and discovered that Spirit Beasts could now undergo tribulations inside it.
• Huang Lei delivered Heavenly Mountain Snow Paste from the Sect Mistress, and Sun Lin reported that he had informed Nangong of Shen Long’s breakthrough.
• Shen Long applied the Heavenly Mountain Snow Paste to the Thunder Peng’s wounds and left it on Thunder Peng Island to recover.

After entering the Spirit Transmutation Realm, Lin Yutong spoke with Su Changfeng about the sect’s progress and their seniors in the Lingxu Realm. In the Lingxu Realm, Shen Long emerged from seclusion, declined a dangerous expedition, and entrusted Nangong Ming with upgrading his saber.

• Lin Yutong and Su Changfeng discussed the Spirit Control Sect’s two Spirit Transmutation cultivators and hoped to learn how Shen Long and Yuan were doing after ascending.
• Lin Yutong advised Su Changfeng to seek cultivation-boosting elixirs in other realms and strengthen his Amethyst Flying Scorpion.
• Shen Long emerged after cultivating the fourth floor of the Ten Thousand Beasts True Scripture and gained the ability to transform into a Flood Dragon.
• Nangong Ming and Qin Ting offered Shen Long spirit herbs and a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, then asked him to help break a restriction in the Ten Thousand Spirit Tomb.
• Shen Long declined to join the expedition to Master Miaoyuan’s Ascension Cave Abode but offered to refine Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pills from sufficiently old seeds.
• Shen Long gave Nangong Ming the Dragon-Slaying Saber to advance into a Mid-Grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.

Shen Long refined Supreme Pills for the Thousand Spirits Sect and obtained more materials, while Chu Buyu learned that he had entered the Void Refining Realm and planned to train in the Divine Weapon Cave Heaven. After leaving the sect, Shen Long headed for the Green Lotus Archipelago to find Thunder Attribute Demon Cores for Thunder Peng.

• Shen Long copied three sixth-order pill formulas, collected five sets of materials for each, and began refining pills to trade for Thunder Attribute Demon Cores.
• Chu Buyu left seclusion, learned that Shen Long had reached the Void Refining Realm, and decided to enter the Divine Weapon Cave Heaven to gather resources and advance her cultivation.
• Nangong Ming returned Shen Long's Dragon-Slaying Saber, which had advanced to a mid-grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, and accepted five Supreme Blood Ganoderma Golden Scale Pills from him.
• Shen Long delivered over two hundred Supreme Pills to Chen Nan, earned Merit Points, and collected five more sets of materials for each of the three pill types.
• Shen Long gave Sun Lin instructions, left the Thousand Spirits Sect, and set out for the Green Lotus Archipelago to obtain sixth-order Thunder Attribute Demon Cores for Thunder Peng.

Shen Long returned to Green Lotus Marketplace, traded for sixth-order Demon Cores, and prepared to seek a sixth-order Flood Dragon with a True Dragon bloodline. While traveling across the sea, he discovered Qin Yang and others fleeing a sixth-order Swallowing Sea Whale and headed toward them.

• Shen Long traded a supreme Blood Ganoderma Golden Scale Pill to Xu Bing for nine sixth-order Demon Cores of thunder, ice, wind, and earth attributes, then bought two ten-thousand-year Golden Thunder Grass plants.
• Shen Long met Xue Sheng, who had also reached the Void Refining stage, before entering the Ten Thousand Beast Tower and feeding a sixth-order Demon Core and Golden Grass to the Thunder Peng.
• Shen Long studied a sea map and set out to find a sixth-order Flood Dragon that might possess a True Dragon bloodline, which he needed to refine True Dragon Pills.
• Seven days into his voyage, Shen Long used the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada to learn that Qin Yang and others were fleeing a sixth-order Swallowing Sea Whale, then steered the Cloud Sea Boat toward them.